Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture (October 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53529 53529-13398963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Marcia Polenberg loves animals, each with its own unique personality, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness, surprise, mischief, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times, building up a rich, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics, paint, graphite and pastel.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:44:25 -0400 2018-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pink Piglet by Marcia Polenberg, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Innovations in Ornament (October 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53533 53533-13399291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists, Lorraine Kolasa, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler, Roger Smith, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:03:18 -0400 2018-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Functional Resilience – Brooches by Michael Nashef, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (October 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53530 53530-13399045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:47:50 -0400 2018-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2017 winning piece in Color Photography, Butterfly up Close by Lynda Mitgutsch. High resolution version available upon request.
Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas (October 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53531 53531-13399127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:51:54 -0400 2018-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prisoner’s Dilemma (detail) by Hava Gurevich, photograph by Jeff Kravitz. High resolution version available upon request.
Pacific Underwater Photography (October 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53534 53534-13399373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A passionate diver for more than 22 years, Lucy S. Wu is a self-taught artist. She started with film photography and now works in digital. This exhibit displays her friends of the sea and the stunning colors and patterns of the underwater world. Her “aquarium” is the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern Asian coastline from Australia north to the Philippines, as well as Micronesia and the Galapagos Islands. Her goal is to show the beauty and character of the life she encounters, with the hope that her photography will inspire ocean conservation. Wu grew up in Ann Arbor and is now based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:11:51 -0400 2018-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Peekaboo — Anemonefish, taken in Papua New Guinea by Lucy S. Wu. High resolution version available upon request.
Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy (October 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53528 53528-13398881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:40:33 -0400 2018-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Earth by Nihad Dukhan, Ph.D., photograph by Dave Pemberton. High resolution version available upon request.
Unique Perspectives: Maps from Tokugawa & Meiji Japan (October 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55296 55296-13713826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit of Japanese maps produced during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), includes maps of the world, Japan, and cities including Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto. A major loan from the collection of Barry MacLean, Lake Forest, Illinois, forms the core of the exhibit, supplemented with works on loan from the Robert B. Hall Collection illustrating the Tokaido road, and selected maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library collection.

Audubon Room hours:
Sunday, 1-6pm; Monday-Friday, 8:30am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Clark Library hours:
Sunday, 1pm-12am; Monday-Thursday, 8am-12am; Friday, 8am-7pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Join us for an opening celebration on September 20, 4-7 p.m.

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Exhibition Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:43:10 -0400 2018-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the Edo Kiriezu, 1849-1857
David Cope: Player of Invisible Keys (October 19, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55790 55790-13777580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Celebrate the work of Michigan poet David Cope, once described by Allen Ginsberg as one of the "leading lights of the next generation." This exhibit draws on drafts, proofs, and other documents from Cope's archive to offer a glimpse into his poetic and editorial process.

Working most often in the Objectivist tradition of Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and George Oppen, David Cope has a particular gift for descriptive detail and for juxtaposing the the intimacy of daily life with commentary on the arc of current events and the particularity of personal relationships with the universality of human experience. He received the Pushcart Prize for “The Crash” in 1977 and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for On The Bridge (1986). Additionally, for more than forty years, Cope has edited and published a small press literary magazine, The Big Scream, providing a venue for more than 200 poets, including both big names names and younger, lesser-known poets. Earlier this year, Ghost Pony Press released Cope’s eighth poetry collection: The Invisible Keys: New and Selected Poems.

On view during Special Collections Research Center hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:23:28 -0400 2018-10-19T08:30:00-04:00 2018-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of Big Scream no. 1 (1974), edited by David Cope. Gift of David Cope.
Exhibition | Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern (October 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52176 52176-12520840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Human beings are political animals, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis,” the Greek word for city. Over two thousand years later, we are still political animals, and the study of ancient cities is of abiding interest, for our perceptions of the urban centers of the past continue to exert a powerful hold on modern culture.

This exhibition showcases three Classical cities where the University of Michigan sponsors field projects: Gabii in Italy, Olynthos in Greece, and Notion in Turkey. The archaeologists excavating these cities, in collaboration with students and faculty from U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, are comparing their findings to projects of urban rebuilding in contemporary Detroit, asking two main questions: How do contemporary archaeological methods facilitate the study of both ancient and modern cities? And how can the study of the past help illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Detroit today?

Lead Curator: Christopher Ratté
Co-Curators: Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, and Kathy Velikov

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:14:19 -0400 2018-10-19T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
Art Exhibit: Nancy Blum, RC Class of '85 (October 19, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56392 56392-13896763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

RC alumna '85 Nancy Blum returns to East Quad to exhibit her drawings of flowers and to deliver the 10/19 Robertson Lecture on her public art installations.

Excerpted from her artist statement:
My large‐scale works on paper, rendered in ink, colored pencil, gouache and graphite, portray a fantastic realm in which flowers own the space. I use a variety of 16th and 17th-century botanical images, from Chinese plum blossoms to German botanicals, as starting points for each drawing. Rather than alluding to an actual landscape, I instead combine species of plants in the same drawing that would not customarily exist together in nature. Obsessive handwork creates intricate layers of visual information to be discovered over time and, in this way, the works become a seductive meditation for the viewer.

I use botanical motifs to create images that are universally associated with growth and continuity. My deeper intent is to conjure the ‘flower’ as an active, forceful agent, subverting a culturally conditioned point of view that often deems the ephemeral and the organic as less powerful and of limited value. My ‘wonderland’ presents a view of life that pulses with expansive fecundity; hopefully, it also propels comprehension of the connectedness of all beings within the limitless energy operating throughout this world.

When making art for public spaces, I strive to invest these commissions with similar content, while bringing beauty and a high level of craft to a particular environment. As I conceive and develop each piece, I respond to the specifics of the surrounding architecture, ecosystem, and community in an effort to compellingly meet the needs of the site. My studio practice, in turn, is invigorated by opportunities to design work in relationship to an existing framework, and the special demands and responsibilities this process entails.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:32:50 -0400 2018-10-19T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Nancy Blum Drawing Exhibit
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (October 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2018-10-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (October 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13272011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-10-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (October 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-10-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
Painting His Way Home (October 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Not Separate from the Street: Nancy Blum and Public Art Installation (October 19, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54327 54327-13572279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 4:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

The Robertson Lecture is an endowed annual event of the LSA Residential College, and is a lasting gift of the first Dean of the RC, James Robertson. The lecturer is traditionally a notable alumna/us of the RC, someone impacting their chosen field(s) in ways congruent with the philosophy of the College. The 2018 Robertson Lecture will be delivered at the Keene Theater in East Quadrangle on October 19th by Nancy Blum, class of '85, a Brooklyn-based artist who is known for her public art commissions and works on paper. In addition to graduating from the RC with majors in Psychology and Women’s Studies, she received an MSW from the U-M School of Social work and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her current work is installed primarily out of the gallery, not separated from the street but integrated into it, with a particular interest in sites of transit in cities and within hospital settings. Her recent commissions include medicinal wildflower windows at the San Francisco General Hospital acute care unit; large, graceful birds in flights of migration/immigration integrated into three light-rail stations in Minneapolis/St. Paul; and over-sized yellow flower sculptures sprouting from a rainwater filtration green space at a bus loop outside Philadelphia.

In her Robertson lecture, Nancy will share anecdotes about these and other works, and take us behind the scenes of her in-progress installation at an MTA train station in NYC. She'll explore how her multiple interests take root in public art, and she'll give us a sense for how she forged her own path as an artist - a journey, she says, that began at the Residential College, notably thanks to mentoring from her ceramics professor, Susan Crowell.

Following the Lecture, please join us for a reception for the artist at the RC Art Gallery, located on the first floor of East Quadrangle. Refreshments will be served. An exhibit of Nancy's drawings will be on display at the same gallery through November 9th, (M-F 10am-5pm, free admission).

WATCH THIS LECTURE from your internet browser during its simulcast, 10/19 from 4:30-5:30pm EST at the link below.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:12:53 -0400 2018-10-19T16:30:00-04:00 2018-10-19T17:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Nancy Blum: Not Separate from the Street
Gallery Opening and Artist Reception (October 19, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56396 56396-13896789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 5:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for the opening reception for the exhibit described below. Refreshments will be served, and Nancy will be on site to enjoy conversation with you.

RC alumna '85 Nancy Blum returns to East Quad to exhibit her drawings of flowers and to deliver the 10/19 Robertson Lecture on her public art installations.

Excerpted from her artist statement:
My large‐scale works on paper, rendered in ink, colored pencil, gouache and graphite, portray a fantastic realm in which flowers own the space. I use a variety of 16th and 17th-century botanical images, from Chinese plum blossoms to German botanicals, as starting points for each drawing. Rather than alluding to an actual landscape, I instead combine species of plants in the same drawing that would not customarily exist together in nature. Obsessive handwork creates intricate layers of visual information to be discovered over time and, in this way, the works become a seductive meditation for the viewer.

I use botanical motifs to create images that are universally associated with growth and continuity. My deeper intent is to conjure the ‘flower’ as an active, forceful agent, subverting a culturally conditioned point of view that often deems the ephemeral and the organic as less powerful and of limited value. My ‘wonderland’ presents a view of life that pulses with expansive fecundity; hopefully, it also propels comprehension of the connectedness of all beings within the limitless energy operating throughout this world.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:36:25 -0400 2018-10-19T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-19T19:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Reception / Open House Nancy Blum Drawing Exhibit
Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture (October 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53529 53529-13398964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Marcia Polenberg loves animals, each with its own unique personality, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness, surprise, mischief, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times, building up a rich, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics, paint, graphite and pastel.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:44:25 -0400 2018-10-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pink Piglet by Marcia Polenberg, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Innovations in Ornament (October 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53533 53533-13399292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists, Lorraine Kolasa, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler, Roger Smith, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:03:18 -0400 2018-10-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Functional Resilience – Brooches by Michael Nashef, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (October 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53530 53530-13399046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:47:50 -0400 2018-10-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2017 winning piece in Color Photography, Butterfly up Close by Lynda Mitgutsch. High resolution version available upon request.
Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas (October 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53531 53531-13399128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:51:54 -0400 2018-10-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prisoner’s Dilemma (detail) by Hava Gurevich, photograph by Jeff Kravitz. High resolution version available upon request.
Pacific Underwater Photography (October 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53534 53534-13399374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A passionate diver for more than 22 years, Lucy S. Wu is a self-taught artist. She started with film photography and now works in digital. This exhibit displays her friends of the sea and the stunning colors and patterns of the underwater world. Her “aquarium” is the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern Asian coastline from Australia north to the Philippines, as well as Micronesia and the Galapagos Islands. Her goal is to show the beauty and character of the life she encounters, with the hope that her photography will inspire ocean conservation. Wu grew up in Ann Arbor and is now based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:11:51 -0400 2018-10-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Peekaboo — Anemonefish, taken in Papua New Guinea by Lucy S. Wu. High resolution version available upon request.
Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy (October 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53528 53528-13398882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:40:33 -0400 2018-10-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Earth by Nihad Dukhan, Ph.D., photograph by Dave Pemberton. High resolution version available upon request.
Unique Perspectives: Maps from Tokugawa & Meiji Japan (October 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55296 55296-13713827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit of Japanese maps produced during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), includes maps of the world, Japan, and cities including Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto. A major loan from the collection of Barry MacLean, Lake Forest, Illinois, forms the core of the exhibit, supplemented with works on loan from the Robert B. Hall Collection illustrating the Tokaido road, and selected maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library collection.

Audubon Room hours:
Sunday, 1-6pm; Monday-Friday, 8:30am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Clark Library hours:
Sunday, 1pm-12am; Monday-Thursday, 8am-12am; Friday, 8am-7pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Join us for an opening celebration on September 20, 4-7 p.m.

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Exhibition Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:43:10 -0400 2018-10-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-20T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the Edo Kiriezu, 1849-1857
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (October 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2018-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (October 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (October 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
Painting His Way Home (October 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-20T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Exhibition | Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern (October 20, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52176 52176-12520841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Human beings are political animals, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis,” the Greek word for city. Over two thousand years later, we are still political animals, and the study of ancient cities is of abiding interest, for our perceptions of the urban centers of the past continue to exert a powerful hold on modern culture.

This exhibition showcases three Classical cities where the University of Michigan sponsors field projects: Gabii in Italy, Olynthos in Greece, and Notion in Turkey. The archaeologists excavating these cities, in collaboration with students and faculty from U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, are comparing their findings to projects of urban rebuilding in contemporary Detroit, asking two main questions: How do contemporary archaeological methods facilitate the study of both ancient and modern cities? And how can the study of the past help illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Detroit today?

Lead Curator: Christopher Ratté
Co-Curators: Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, and Kathy Velikov

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:14:19 -0400 2018-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture (October 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53529 53529-13398965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Marcia Polenberg loves animals, each with its own unique personality, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness, surprise, mischief, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times, building up a rich, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics, paint, graphite and pastel.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:44:25 -0400 2018-10-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pink Piglet by Marcia Polenberg, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Innovations in Ornament (October 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53533 53533-13399293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists, Lorraine Kolasa, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler, Roger Smith, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:03:18 -0400 2018-10-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Functional Resilience – Brooches by Michael Nashef, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (October 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53530 53530-13399047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:47:50 -0400 2018-10-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2017 winning piece in Color Photography, Butterfly up Close by Lynda Mitgutsch. High resolution version available upon request.
Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas (October 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53531 53531-13399129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:51:54 -0400 2018-10-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prisoner’s Dilemma (detail) by Hava Gurevich, photograph by Jeff Kravitz. High resolution version available upon request.
Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy (October 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53528 53528-13398883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:40:33 -0400 2018-10-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Earth by Nihad Dukhan, Ph.D., photograph by Dave Pemberton. High resolution version available upon request.
Unique Perspectives: Maps from Tokugawa & Meiji Japan (October 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55296 55296-13713828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit of Japanese maps produced during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), includes maps of the world, Japan, and cities including Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto. A major loan from the collection of Barry MacLean, Lake Forest, Illinois, forms the core of the exhibit, supplemented with works on loan from the Robert B. Hall Collection illustrating the Tokaido road, and selected maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library collection.

Audubon Room hours:
Sunday, 1-6pm; Monday-Friday, 8:30am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Clark Library hours:
Sunday, 1pm-12am; Monday-Thursday, 8am-12am; Friday, 8am-7pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Join us for an opening celebration on September 20, 4-7 p.m.

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Exhibition Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:43:10 -0400 2018-10-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-21T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the Edo Kiriezu, 1849-1857
Painting His Way Home (October 21, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-21T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-21T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Family Day | Ancient Cities (October 21, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55701 55701-13770557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 11:30am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Explore . . .
The ways archaeologists use technology (and try out our 3D scanner!)

Discover . . .
How ancient weavers created colorful woven fabrics

Create . . .
Your own Greek theater mask and design a pebble-style mosaic

The Kelsey Museum and the Family Day event are free and open to the public. Engaging, hands-on activities take place in Newberry Hall. Kid-friendly tours of the special exhibition "Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern" will take place at 1:00, 2:00, and 3:00 PM.

For more information, please call 734-647-4167 or visit: https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey
Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies

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Other Wed, 03 Oct 2018 11:25:18 -0400 2018-10-21T11:30:00-04:00 2018-10-21T15:30:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Other Family Day, October 2018
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (October 21, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2018-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (October 21, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (October 21, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
Exhibition | Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern (October 21, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52176 52176-12520842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Human beings are political animals, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis,” the Greek word for city. Over two thousand years later, we are still political animals, and the study of ancient cities is of abiding interest, for our perceptions of the urban centers of the past continue to exert a powerful hold on modern culture.

This exhibition showcases three Classical cities where the University of Michigan sponsors field projects: Gabii in Italy, Olynthos in Greece, and Notion in Turkey. The archaeologists excavating these cities, in collaboration with students and faculty from U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, are comparing their findings to projects of urban rebuilding in contemporary Detroit, asking two main questions: How do contemporary archaeological methods facilitate the study of both ancient and modern cities? And how can the study of the past help illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Detroit today?

Lead Curator: Christopher Ratté
Co-Curators: Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, and Kathy Velikov

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:14:19 -0400 2018-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture (October 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53529 53529-13398966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Marcia Polenberg loves animals, each with its own unique personality, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness, surprise, mischief, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times, building up a rich, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics, paint, graphite and pastel.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:44:25 -0400 2018-10-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pink Piglet by Marcia Polenberg, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Innovations in Ornament (October 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53533 53533-13399294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists, Lorraine Kolasa, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler, Roger Smith, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:03:18 -0400 2018-10-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Functional Resilience – Brooches by Michael Nashef, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (October 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53530 53530-13399048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:47:50 -0400 2018-10-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2017 winning piece in Color Photography, Butterfly up Close by Lynda Mitgutsch. High resolution version available upon request.
Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas (October 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53531 53531-13399130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:51:54 -0400 2018-10-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prisoner’s Dilemma (detail) by Hava Gurevich, photograph by Jeff Kravitz. High resolution version available upon request.
Pacific Underwater Photography (October 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53534 53534-13399376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A passionate diver for more than 22 years, Lucy S. Wu is a self-taught artist. She started with film photography and now works in digital. This exhibit displays her friends of the sea and the stunning colors and patterns of the underwater world. Her “aquarium” is the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern Asian coastline from Australia north to the Philippines, as well as Micronesia and the Galapagos Islands. Her goal is to show the beauty and character of the life she encounters, with the hope that her photography will inspire ocean conservation. Wu grew up in Ann Arbor and is now based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:11:51 -0400 2018-10-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Peekaboo — Anemonefish, taken in Papua New Guinea by Lucy S. Wu. High resolution version available upon request.
Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy (October 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53528 53528-13398884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:40:33 -0400 2018-10-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Earth by Nihad Dukhan, Ph.D., photograph by Dave Pemberton. High resolution version available upon request.
Unique Perspectives: Maps from Tokugawa & Meiji Japan (October 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55296 55296-13713829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit of Japanese maps produced during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), includes maps of the world, Japan, and cities including Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto. A major loan from the collection of Barry MacLean, Lake Forest, Illinois, forms the core of the exhibit, supplemented with works on loan from the Robert B. Hall Collection illustrating the Tokaido road, and selected maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library collection.

Audubon Room hours:
Sunday, 1-6pm; Monday-Friday, 8:30am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Clark Library hours:
Sunday, 1pm-12am; Monday-Thursday, 8am-12am; Friday, 8am-7pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Join us for an opening celebration on September 20, 4-7 p.m.

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Exhibition Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:43:10 -0400 2018-10-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the Edo Kiriezu, 1849-1857
David Cope: Player of Invisible Keys (October 22, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55790 55790-13777583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Celebrate the work of Michigan poet David Cope, once described by Allen Ginsberg as one of the "leading lights of the next generation." This exhibit draws on drafts, proofs, and other documents from Cope's archive to offer a glimpse into his poetic and editorial process.

Working most often in the Objectivist tradition of Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and George Oppen, David Cope has a particular gift for descriptive detail and for juxtaposing the the intimacy of daily life with commentary on the arc of current events and the particularity of personal relationships with the universality of human experience. He received the Pushcart Prize for “The Crash” in 1977 and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for On The Bridge (1986). Additionally, for more than forty years, Cope has edited and published a small press literary magazine, The Big Scream, providing a venue for more than 200 poets, including both big names names and younger, lesser-known poets. Earlier this year, Ghost Pony Press released Cope’s eighth poetry collection: The Invisible Keys: New and Selected Poems.

On view during Special Collections Research Center hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:23:28 -0400 2018-10-22T08:30:00-04:00 2018-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of Big Scream no. 1 (1974), edited by David Cope. Gift of David Cope.
Art Exhibit: Nancy Blum, RC Class of '85 (October 22, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56392 56392-13896766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

RC alumna '85 Nancy Blum returns to East Quad to exhibit her drawings of flowers and to deliver the 10/19 Robertson Lecture on her public art installations.

Excerpted from her artist statement:
My large‐scale works on paper, rendered in ink, colored pencil, gouache and graphite, portray a fantastic realm in which flowers own the space. I use a variety of 16th and 17th-century botanical images, from Chinese plum blossoms to German botanicals, as starting points for each drawing. Rather than alluding to an actual landscape, I instead combine species of plants in the same drawing that would not customarily exist together in nature. Obsessive handwork creates intricate layers of visual information to be discovered over time and, in this way, the works become a seductive meditation for the viewer.

I use botanical motifs to create images that are universally associated with growth and continuity. My deeper intent is to conjure the ‘flower’ as an active, forceful agent, subverting a culturally conditioned point of view that often deems the ephemeral and the organic as less powerful and of limited value. My ‘wonderland’ presents a view of life that pulses with expansive fecundity; hopefully, it also propels comprehension of the connectedness of all beings within the limitless energy operating throughout this world.

When making art for public spaces, I strive to invest these commissions with similar content, while bringing beauty and a high level of craft to a particular environment. As I conceive and develop each piece, I respond to the specifics of the surrounding architecture, ecosystem, and community in an effort to compellingly meet the needs of the site. My studio practice, in turn, is invigorated by opportunities to design work in relationship to an existing framework, and the special demands and responsibilities this process entails.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:32:50 -0400 2018-10-22T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Nancy Blum Drawing Exhibit
Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture (October 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53529 53529-13398967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Marcia Polenberg loves animals, each with its own unique personality, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness, surprise, mischief, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times, building up a rich, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics, paint, graphite and pastel.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:44:25 -0400 2018-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pink Piglet by Marcia Polenberg, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Innovations in Ornament (October 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53533 53533-13399295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists, Lorraine Kolasa, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler, Roger Smith, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:03:18 -0400 2018-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Functional Resilience – Brooches by Michael Nashef, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (October 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53530 53530-13399049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:47:50 -0400 2018-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2017 winning piece in Color Photography, Butterfly up Close by Lynda Mitgutsch. High resolution version available upon request.
Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas (October 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53531 53531-13399131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:51:54 -0400 2018-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prisoner’s Dilemma (detail) by Hava Gurevich, photograph by Jeff Kravitz. High resolution version available upon request.
Pacific Underwater Photography (October 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53534 53534-13399377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A passionate diver for more than 22 years, Lucy S. Wu is a self-taught artist. She started with film photography and now works in digital. This exhibit displays her friends of the sea and the stunning colors and patterns of the underwater world. Her “aquarium” is the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern Asian coastline from Australia north to the Philippines, as well as Micronesia and the Galapagos Islands. Her goal is to show the beauty and character of the life she encounters, with the hope that her photography will inspire ocean conservation. Wu grew up in Ann Arbor and is now based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:11:51 -0400 2018-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Peekaboo — Anemonefish, taken in Papua New Guinea by Lucy S. Wu. High resolution version available upon request.
Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy (October 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53528 53528-13398885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:40:33 -0400 2018-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Earth by Nihad Dukhan, Ph.D., photograph by Dave Pemberton. High resolution version available upon request.
Unique Perspectives: Maps from Tokugawa & Meiji Japan (October 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55296 55296-13713830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit of Japanese maps produced during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), includes maps of the world, Japan, and cities including Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto. A major loan from the collection of Barry MacLean, Lake Forest, Illinois, forms the core of the exhibit, supplemented with works on loan from the Robert B. Hall Collection illustrating the Tokaido road, and selected maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library collection.

Audubon Room hours:
Sunday, 1-6pm; Monday-Friday, 8:30am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Clark Library hours:
Sunday, 1pm-12am; Monday-Thursday, 8am-12am; Friday, 8am-7pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Join us for an opening celebration on September 20, 4-7 p.m.

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Exhibition Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:43:10 -0400 2018-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the Edo Kiriezu, 1849-1857
David Cope: Player of Invisible Keys (October 23, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55790 55790-13777584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Celebrate the work of Michigan poet David Cope, once described by Allen Ginsberg as one of the "leading lights of the next generation." This exhibit draws on drafts, proofs, and other documents from Cope's archive to offer a glimpse into his poetic and editorial process.

Working most often in the Objectivist tradition of Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and George Oppen, David Cope has a particular gift for descriptive detail and for juxtaposing the the intimacy of daily life with commentary on the arc of current events and the particularity of personal relationships with the universality of human experience. He received the Pushcart Prize for “The Crash” in 1977 and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for On The Bridge (1986). Additionally, for more than forty years, Cope has edited and published a small press literary magazine, The Big Scream, providing a venue for more than 200 poets, including both big names names and younger, lesser-known poets. Earlier this year, Ghost Pony Press released Cope’s eighth poetry collection: The Invisible Keys: New and Selected Poems.

On view during Special Collections Research Center hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:23:28 -0400 2018-10-23T08:30:00-04:00 2018-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of Big Scream no. 1 (1974), edited by David Cope. Gift of David Cope.
Exhibition | Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern (October 23, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52176 52176-12520844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Human beings are political animals, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis,” the Greek word for city. Over two thousand years later, we are still political animals, and the study of ancient cities is of abiding interest, for our perceptions of the urban centers of the past continue to exert a powerful hold on modern culture.

This exhibition showcases three Classical cities where the University of Michigan sponsors field projects: Gabii in Italy, Olynthos in Greece, and Notion in Turkey. The archaeologists excavating these cities, in collaboration with students and faculty from U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, are comparing their findings to projects of urban rebuilding in contemporary Detroit, asking two main questions: How do contemporary archaeological methods facilitate the study of both ancient and modern cities? And how can the study of the past help illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Detroit today?

Lead Curator: Christopher Ratté
Co-Curators: Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, and Kathy Velikov

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:14:19 -0400 2018-10-23T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
Art Exhibit: Nancy Blum, RC Class of '85 (October 23, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56392 56392-13896767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

RC alumna '85 Nancy Blum returns to East Quad to exhibit her drawings of flowers and to deliver the 10/19 Robertson Lecture on her public art installations.

Excerpted from her artist statement:
My large‐scale works on paper, rendered in ink, colored pencil, gouache and graphite, portray a fantastic realm in which flowers own the space. I use a variety of 16th and 17th-century botanical images, from Chinese plum blossoms to German botanicals, as starting points for each drawing. Rather than alluding to an actual landscape, I instead combine species of plants in the same drawing that would not customarily exist together in nature. Obsessive handwork creates intricate layers of visual information to be discovered over time and, in this way, the works become a seductive meditation for the viewer.

I use botanical motifs to create images that are universally associated with growth and continuity. My deeper intent is to conjure the ‘flower’ as an active, forceful agent, subverting a culturally conditioned point of view that often deems the ephemeral and the organic as less powerful and of limited value. My ‘wonderland’ presents a view of life that pulses with expansive fecundity; hopefully, it also propels comprehension of the connectedness of all beings within the limitless energy operating throughout this world.

When making art for public spaces, I strive to invest these commissions with similar content, while bringing beauty and a high level of craft to a particular environment. As I conceive and develop each piece, I respond to the specifics of the surrounding architecture, ecosystem, and community in an effort to compellingly meet the needs of the site. My studio practice, in turn, is invigorated by opportunities to design work in relationship to an existing framework, and the special demands and responsibilities this process entails.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:32:50 -0400 2018-10-23T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Nancy Blum Drawing Exhibit
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (October 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2018-10-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (October 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-10-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (October 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-10-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
Painting His Way Home (October 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Dialogues on Diversity in Science (October 23, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56172 56172-13841826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: Michigan Medicine Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Join the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and The Endowment for Basic Sciences at an innovative diversity dialogue event featuring EMMY award-winning actor and diversity trainer Ron Jones.

Ron Jones is the executive director of Dialogues on Diversity (DOD), a theatre company that uses theatrical models to make messages of difference, inclusion, and social justice accessible, engaging, and entertaining. At this event, Ron Jones and his cast will create a performance specifically catered to address obstacles faced in our scientific communities and workspaces.

RSVP Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QYRPPVJtxrVMICEWsE91a4yDMg2denVc1hQFxm3EGB4/edit?ts=5ba3e8ad

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Performance Mon, 01 Oct 2018 13:11:17 -0400 2018-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 2018-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts Michigan Medicine Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Performance Marketing Ad for event
Luzinterruptus: "Literature vs. Traffic" (October 23, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54081 54081-13521847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This October, the Institute for the Humanities is shutting down Liberty Street near U-M campus. We’re going to reuse thousands of discarded books, turning them into an illuminated pathway for “Literature vs. Traffic,” a large-scale art installation by Spanish undercover art collective Luzinterruptus.

Ann Arbor joins Toronto, New York, and Melbourne, as we feature--for one night only--the brilliance of 10,000 books and thousands of LED lights. What was just a street will become a beautiful installation, as we bring the power of art, education, the written word, and free thought to the entire Ann Arbor community by essentially “paving” Liberty St. with thousands of glowing books.

This is a grass-roots project and your participation is essential!

Want to play a part in this amazing campus and community-wide project? We need:

Volunteers: Community and campus groups and individuals to volunteer to work with the artists to prep & attach lights to books (Oct 15-23). Sign up to volunteer here: http://myumi.ch/6jW5V

Visitors: Come view the extraordinary installation, and help us extend the life of a book by taking some books home (Oct. 23 5-11pm, books can be taken home after 8pm).

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Exhibition Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:59:53 -0400 2018-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Luzinterruptus
Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture (October 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53529 53529-13398968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Marcia Polenberg loves animals, each with its own unique personality, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness, surprise, mischief, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times, building up a rich, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics, paint, graphite and pastel.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:44:25 -0400 2018-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pink Piglet by Marcia Polenberg, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Innovations in Ornament (October 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53533 53533-13399296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists, Lorraine Kolasa, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler, Roger Smith, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:03:18 -0400 2018-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Functional Resilience – Brooches by Michael Nashef, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (October 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53530 53530-13399050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:47:50 -0400 2018-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2017 winning piece in Color Photography, Butterfly up Close by Lynda Mitgutsch. High resolution version available upon request.
Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas (October 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53531 53531-13399132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:51:54 -0400 2018-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prisoner’s Dilemma (detail) by Hava Gurevich, photograph by Jeff Kravitz. High resolution version available upon request.
Pacific Underwater Photography (October 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53534 53534-13399378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A passionate diver for more than 22 years, Lucy S. Wu is a self-taught artist. She started with film photography and now works in digital. This exhibit displays her friends of the sea and the stunning colors and patterns of the underwater world. Her “aquarium” is the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern Asian coastline from Australia north to the Philippines, as well as Micronesia and the Galapagos Islands. Her goal is to show the beauty and character of the life she encounters, with the hope that her photography will inspire ocean conservation. Wu grew up in Ann Arbor and is now based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:11:51 -0400 2018-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Peekaboo — Anemonefish, taken in Papua New Guinea by Lucy S. Wu. High resolution version available upon request.
Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy (October 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53528 53528-13398886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:40:33 -0400 2018-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Earth by Nihad Dukhan, Ph.D., photograph by Dave Pemberton. High resolution version available upon request.
Unique Perspectives: Maps from Tokugawa & Meiji Japan (October 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55296 55296-13713831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit of Japanese maps produced during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), includes maps of the world, Japan, and cities including Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto. A major loan from the collection of Barry MacLean, Lake Forest, Illinois, forms the core of the exhibit, supplemented with works on loan from the Robert B. Hall Collection illustrating the Tokaido road, and selected maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library collection.

Audubon Room hours:
Sunday, 1-6pm; Monday-Friday, 8:30am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Clark Library hours:
Sunday, 1pm-12am; Monday-Thursday, 8am-12am; Friday, 8am-7pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Join us for an opening celebration on September 20, 4-7 p.m.

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Exhibition Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:43:10 -0400 2018-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the Edo Kiriezu, 1849-1857
David Cope: Player of Invisible Keys (October 24, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55790 55790-13777585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Celebrate the work of Michigan poet David Cope, once described by Allen Ginsberg as one of the "leading lights of the next generation." This exhibit draws on drafts, proofs, and other documents from Cope's archive to offer a glimpse into his poetic and editorial process.

Working most often in the Objectivist tradition of Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and George Oppen, David Cope has a particular gift for descriptive detail and for juxtaposing the the intimacy of daily life with commentary on the arc of current events and the particularity of personal relationships with the universality of human experience. He received the Pushcart Prize for “The Crash” in 1977 and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for On The Bridge (1986). Additionally, for more than forty years, Cope has edited and published a small press literary magazine, The Big Scream, providing a venue for more than 200 poets, including both big names names and younger, lesser-known poets. Earlier this year, Ghost Pony Press released Cope’s eighth poetry collection: The Invisible Keys: New and Selected Poems.

On view during Special Collections Research Center hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:23:28 -0400 2018-10-24T08:30:00-04:00 2018-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of Big Scream no. 1 (1974), edited by David Cope. Gift of David Cope.
Exhibition | Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern (October 24, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52176 52176-12520845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Human beings are political animals, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis,” the Greek word for city. Over two thousand years later, we are still political animals, and the study of ancient cities is of abiding interest, for our perceptions of the urban centers of the past continue to exert a powerful hold on modern culture.

This exhibition showcases three Classical cities where the University of Michigan sponsors field projects: Gabii in Italy, Olynthos in Greece, and Notion in Turkey. The archaeologists excavating these cities, in collaboration with students and faculty from U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, are comparing their findings to projects of urban rebuilding in contemporary Detroit, asking two main questions: How do contemporary archaeological methods facilitate the study of both ancient and modern cities? And how can the study of the past help illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Detroit today?

Lead Curator: Christopher Ratté
Co-Curators: Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, and Kathy Velikov

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:14:19 -0400 2018-10-24T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
Art Exhibit: Nancy Blum, RC Class of '85 (October 24, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56392 56392-13896768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

RC alumna '85 Nancy Blum returns to East Quad to exhibit her drawings of flowers and to deliver the 10/19 Robertson Lecture on her public art installations.

Excerpted from her artist statement:
My large‐scale works on paper, rendered in ink, colored pencil, gouache and graphite, portray a fantastic realm in which flowers own the space. I use a variety of 16th and 17th-century botanical images, from Chinese plum blossoms to German botanicals, as starting points for each drawing. Rather than alluding to an actual landscape, I instead combine species of plants in the same drawing that would not customarily exist together in nature. Obsessive handwork creates intricate layers of visual information to be discovered over time and, in this way, the works become a seductive meditation for the viewer.

I use botanical motifs to create images that are universally associated with growth and continuity. My deeper intent is to conjure the ‘flower’ as an active, forceful agent, subverting a culturally conditioned point of view that often deems the ephemeral and the organic as less powerful and of limited value. My ‘wonderland’ presents a view of life that pulses with expansive fecundity; hopefully, it also propels comprehension of the connectedness of all beings within the limitless energy operating throughout this world.

When making art for public spaces, I strive to invest these commissions with similar content, while bringing beauty and a high level of craft to a particular environment. As I conceive and develop each piece, I respond to the specifics of the surrounding architecture, ecosystem, and community in an effort to compellingly meet the needs of the site. My studio practice, in turn, is invigorated by opportunities to design work in relationship to an existing framework, and the special demands and responsibilities this process entails.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:32:50 -0400 2018-10-24T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Nancy Blum Drawing Exhibit
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (October 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2018-10-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (October 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-10-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Painting His Way Home (October 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Luzinterruptus: "Literature vs. Traffic" Post-Event Discussion (October 24, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54082 54082-13521848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Members of the undercover Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus join us for a discussion about the Oct. 23 "Literature vs. Traffic" installation.

About the installation:

This October, the Institute for the Humanities is shutting down Liberty Street near U-M campus. We’re going to reuse thousands of discarded books, turning them into an illuminated pathway for “Literature vs. Traffic,” a large-scale art installation by Spanish undercover art collective Luzinterruptus.

Ann Arbor joins Toronto, New York, and Melbourne, as we feature--for one night only--the brilliance of 10,000 books and thousands of LED lights. What was just a street will become a beautiful installation, as we bring the power of art, education, the written word, and free thought to the entire Ann Arbor community by essentially “paving” Liberty St. with thousands of glowing books.

This is a grass-roots project and your participation is essential!

Want to play a part in this amazing campus and community-wide project? We need:

Volunteers: Community and campus groups and individuals to volunteer to work with the artists to prep & attach lights to books (Oct 15-23), and the day of the event (Oct 23);

Donations: Books that would otherwise be recycled or thrown away;

Visitors: Come view the extraordinary installation, and help us extend the life of a book by taking one (or more) home (Oct. 23 5-11pm).

Small quantities of books can be dropped off at the Institute for the Humanities office at 202 S. Thayer. We can also pick up larger quantities of books. Read more on our website at www.lsa.umich.edu/humanities, or email luzinterruptus@umich.edu to volunteer, schedule a book pick-up, or with questions.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:07:38 -0400 2018-10-24T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Luzinterruptus
An Evening of Classics (October 24, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52493 52493-12827609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

A series of presentations detailing the recent discoveries made by the directors of the three projects appearing in the "Urban Biographies" exhibition. These presentations will be followed by a response by Kelsey Museum Research Scientist and Director of the El Kurru excavations, Geoff Emberling.

Reception at 5:00 PM, presentations at 5:30 PM.

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Presentation Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:35:15 -0400 2018-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-24T19:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Presentation Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture (October 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53529 53529-13398969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Marcia Polenberg loves animals, each with its own unique personality, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness, surprise, mischief, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times, building up a rich, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics, paint, graphite and pastel.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:44:25 -0400 2018-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pink Piglet by Marcia Polenberg, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Innovations in Ornament (October 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53533 53533-13399297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists, Lorraine Kolasa, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler, Roger Smith, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:03:18 -0400 2018-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Functional Resilience – Brooches by Michael Nashef, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (October 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53530 53530-13399051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:47:50 -0400 2018-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2017 winning piece in Color Photography, Butterfly up Close by Lynda Mitgutsch. High resolution version available upon request.
Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas (October 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53531 53531-13399133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:51:54 -0400 2018-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prisoner’s Dilemma (detail) by Hava Gurevich, photograph by Jeff Kravitz. High resolution version available upon request.
Pacific Underwater Photography (October 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53534 53534-13399379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A passionate diver for more than 22 years, Lucy S. Wu is a self-taught artist. She started with film photography and now works in digital. This exhibit displays her friends of the sea and the stunning colors and patterns of the underwater world. Her “aquarium” is the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern Asian coastline from Australia north to the Philippines, as well as Micronesia and the Galapagos Islands. Her goal is to show the beauty and character of the life she encounters, with the hope that her photography will inspire ocean conservation. Wu grew up in Ann Arbor and is now based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:11:51 -0400 2018-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Peekaboo — Anemonefish, taken in Papua New Guinea by Lucy S. Wu. High resolution version available upon request.
Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy (October 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53528 53528-13398887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:40:33 -0400 2018-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Earth by Nihad Dukhan, Ph.D., photograph by Dave Pemberton. High resolution version available upon request.
Unique Perspectives: Maps from Tokugawa & Meiji Japan (October 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55296 55296-13713832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit of Japanese maps produced during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), includes maps of the world, Japan, and cities including Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto. A major loan from the collection of Barry MacLean, Lake Forest, Illinois, forms the core of the exhibit, supplemented with works on loan from the Robert B. Hall Collection illustrating the Tokaido road, and selected maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library collection.

Audubon Room hours:
Sunday, 1-6pm; Monday-Friday, 8:30am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Clark Library hours:
Sunday, 1pm-12am; Monday-Thursday, 8am-12am; Friday, 8am-7pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Join us for an opening celebration on September 20, 4-7 p.m.

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Exhibition Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:43:10 -0400 2018-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the Edo Kiriezu, 1849-1857
David Cope: Player of Invisible Keys (October 25, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55790 55790-13777586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Celebrate the work of Michigan poet David Cope, once described by Allen Ginsberg as one of the "leading lights of the next generation." This exhibit draws on drafts, proofs, and other documents from Cope's archive to offer a glimpse into his poetic and editorial process.

Working most often in the Objectivist tradition of Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and George Oppen, David Cope has a particular gift for descriptive detail and for juxtaposing the the intimacy of daily life with commentary on the arc of current events and the particularity of personal relationships with the universality of human experience. He received the Pushcart Prize for “The Crash” in 1977 and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for On The Bridge (1986). Additionally, for more than forty years, Cope has edited and published a small press literary magazine, The Big Scream, providing a venue for more than 200 poets, including both big names names and younger, lesser-known poets. Earlier this year, Ghost Pony Press released Cope’s eighth poetry collection: The Invisible Keys: New and Selected Poems.

On view during Special Collections Research Center hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:23:28 -0400 2018-10-25T08:30:00-04:00 2018-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of Big Scream no. 1 (1974), edited by David Cope. Gift of David Cope.
Exhibition | Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern (October 25, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52176 52176-12520846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Human beings are political animals, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis,” the Greek word for city. Over two thousand years later, we are still political animals, and the study of ancient cities is of abiding interest, for our perceptions of the urban centers of the past continue to exert a powerful hold on modern culture.

This exhibition showcases three Classical cities where the University of Michigan sponsors field projects: Gabii in Italy, Olynthos in Greece, and Notion in Turkey. The archaeologists excavating these cities, in collaboration with students and faculty from U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, are comparing their findings to projects of urban rebuilding in contemporary Detroit, asking two main questions: How do contemporary archaeological methods facilitate the study of both ancient and modern cities? And how can the study of the past help illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Detroit today?

Lead Curator: Christopher Ratté
Co-Curators: Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, and Kathy Velikov

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:14:19 -0400 2018-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
Art Exhibit: Nancy Blum, RC Class of '85 (October 25, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56392 56392-13896769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

RC alumna '85 Nancy Blum returns to East Quad to exhibit her drawings of flowers and to deliver the 10/19 Robertson Lecture on her public art installations.

Excerpted from her artist statement:
My large‐scale works on paper, rendered in ink, colored pencil, gouache and graphite, portray a fantastic realm in which flowers own the space. I use a variety of 16th and 17th-century botanical images, from Chinese plum blossoms to German botanicals, as starting points for each drawing. Rather than alluding to an actual landscape, I instead combine species of plants in the same drawing that would not customarily exist together in nature. Obsessive handwork creates intricate layers of visual information to be discovered over time and, in this way, the works become a seductive meditation for the viewer.

I use botanical motifs to create images that are universally associated with growth and continuity. My deeper intent is to conjure the ‘flower’ as an active, forceful agent, subverting a culturally conditioned point of view that often deems the ephemeral and the organic as less powerful and of limited value. My ‘wonderland’ presents a view of life that pulses with expansive fecundity; hopefully, it also propels comprehension of the connectedness of all beings within the limitless energy operating throughout this world.

When making art for public spaces, I strive to invest these commissions with similar content, while bringing beauty and a high level of craft to a particular environment. As I conceive and develop each piece, I respond to the specifics of the surrounding architecture, ecosystem, and community in an effort to compellingly meet the needs of the site. My studio practice, in turn, is invigorated by opportunities to design work in relationship to an existing framework, and the special demands and responsibilities this process entails.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:32:50 -0400 2018-10-25T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Nancy Blum Drawing Exhibit
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (October 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2018-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (October 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (October 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
Painting His Way Home (October 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture (October 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53529 53529-13398970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Marcia Polenberg loves animals, each with its own unique personality, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness, surprise, mischief, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times, building up a rich, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics, paint, graphite and pastel.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:44:25 -0400 2018-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pink Piglet by Marcia Polenberg, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Innovations in Ornament (October 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53533 53533-13399298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists, Lorraine Kolasa, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler, Roger Smith, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:03:18 -0400 2018-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Functional Resilience – Brooches by Michael Nashef, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (October 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53530 53530-13399052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:47:50 -0400 2018-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2017 winning piece in Color Photography, Butterfly up Close by Lynda Mitgutsch. High resolution version available upon request.
Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas (October 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53531 53531-13399134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:51:54 -0400 2018-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prisoner’s Dilemma (detail) by Hava Gurevich, photograph by Jeff Kravitz. High resolution version available upon request.
Pacific Underwater Photography (October 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53534 53534-13399380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A passionate diver for more than 22 years, Lucy S. Wu is a self-taught artist. She started with film photography and now works in digital. This exhibit displays her friends of the sea and the stunning colors and patterns of the underwater world. Her “aquarium” is the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern Asian coastline from Australia north to the Philippines, as well as Micronesia and the Galapagos Islands. Her goal is to show the beauty and character of the life she encounters, with the hope that her photography will inspire ocean conservation. Wu grew up in Ann Arbor and is now based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:11:51 -0400 2018-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Peekaboo — Anemonefish, taken in Papua New Guinea by Lucy S. Wu. High resolution version available upon request.
Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy (October 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53528 53528-13398888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:40:33 -0400 2018-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Earth by Nihad Dukhan, Ph.D., photograph by Dave Pemberton. High resolution version available upon request.
Unique Perspectives: Maps from Tokugawa & Meiji Japan (October 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55296 55296-13713833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit of Japanese maps produced during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), includes maps of the world, Japan, and cities including Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto. A major loan from the collection of Barry MacLean, Lake Forest, Illinois, forms the core of the exhibit, supplemented with works on loan from the Robert B. Hall Collection illustrating the Tokaido road, and selected maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library collection.

Audubon Room hours:
Sunday, 1-6pm; Monday-Friday, 8:30am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Clark Library hours:
Sunday, 1pm-12am; Monday-Thursday, 8am-12am; Friday, 8am-7pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Join us for an opening celebration on September 20, 4-7 p.m.

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Exhibition Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:43:10 -0400 2018-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the Edo Kiriezu, 1849-1857
David Cope: Player of Invisible Keys (October 26, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55790 55790-13777587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Celebrate the work of Michigan poet David Cope, once described by Allen Ginsberg as one of the "leading lights of the next generation." This exhibit draws on drafts, proofs, and other documents from Cope's archive to offer a glimpse into his poetic and editorial process.

Working most often in the Objectivist tradition of Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and George Oppen, David Cope has a particular gift for descriptive detail and for juxtaposing the the intimacy of daily life with commentary on the arc of current events and the particularity of personal relationships with the universality of human experience. He received the Pushcart Prize for “The Crash” in 1977 and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for On The Bridge (1986). Additionally, for more than forty years, Cope has edited and published a small press literary magazine, The Big Scream, providing a venue for more than 200 poets, including both big names names and younger, lesser-known poets. Earlier this year, Ghost Pony Press released Cope’s eighth poetry collection: The Invisible Keys: New and Selected Poems.

On view during Special Collections Research Center hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:23:28 -0400 2018-10-26T08:30:00-04:00 2018-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of Big Scream no. 1 (1974), edited by David Cope. Gift of David Cope.
Exhibition | Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern (October 26, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52176 52176-12520847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Human beings are political animals, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis,” the Greek word for city. Over two thousand years later, we are still political animals, and the study of ancient cities is of abiding interest, for our perceptions of the urban centers of the past continue to exert a powerful hold on modern culture.

This exhibition showcases three Classical cities where the University of Michigan sponsors field projects: Gabii in Italy, Olynthos in Greece, and Notion in Turkey. The archaeologists excavating these cities, in collaboration with students and faculty from U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, are comparing their findings to projects of urban rebuilding in contemporary Detroit, asking two main questions: How do contemporary archaeological methods facilitate the study of both ancient and modern cities? And how can the study of the past help illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Detroit today?

Lead Curator: Christopher Ratté
Co-Curators: Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, and Kathy Velikov

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:14:19 -0400 2018-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
Art Exhibit: Nancy Blum, RC Class of '85 (October 26, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56392 56392-13896770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

RC alumna '85 Nancy Blum returns to East Quad to exhibit her drawings of flowers and to deliver the 10/19 Robertson Lecture on her public art installations.

Excerpted from her artist statement:
My large‐scale works on paper, rendered in ink, colored pencil, gouache and graphite, portray a fantastic realm in which flowers own the space. I use a variety of 16th and 17th-century botanical images, from Chinese plum blossoms to German botanicals, as starting points for each drawing. Rather than alluding to an actual landscape, I instead combine species of plants in the same drawing that would not customarily exist together in nature. Obsessive handwork creates intricate layers of visual information to be discovered over time and, in this way, the works become a seductive meditation for the viewer.

I use botanical motifs to create images that are universally associated with growth and continuity. My deeper intent is to conjure the ‘flower’ as an active, forceful agent, subverting a culturally conditioned point of view that often deems the ephemeral and the organic as less powerful and of limited value. My ‘wonderland’ presents a view of life that pulses with expansive fecundity; hopefully, it also propels comprehension of the connectedness of all beings within the limitless energy operating throughout this world.

When making art for public spaces, I strive to invest these commissions with similar content, while bringing beauty and a high level of craft to a particular environment. As I conceive and develop each piece, I respond to the specifics of the surrounding architecture, ecosystem, and community in an effort to compellingly meet the needs of the site. My studio practice, in turn, is invigorated by opportunities to design work in relationship to an existing framework, and the special demands and responsibilities this process entails.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:32:50 -0400 2018-10-26T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Nancy Blum Drawing Exhibit
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (October 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2018-10-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (October 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13272012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-10-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (October 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-10-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
Painting His Way Home (October 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture (October 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53529 53529-13398971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Marcia Polenberg loves animals, each with its own unique personality, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness, surprise, mischief, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times, building up a rich, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics, paint, graphite and pastel.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:44:25 -0400 2018-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pink Piglet by Marcia Polenberg, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Innovations in Ornament (October 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53533 53533-13399299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists, Lorraine Kolasa, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler, Roger Smith, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:03:18 -0400 2018-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Functional Resilience – Brooches by Michael Nashef, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (October 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53530 53530-13399053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:47:50 -0400 2018-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2017 winning piece in Color Photography, Butterfly up Close by Lynda Mitgutsch. High resolution version available upon request.
Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas (October 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53531 53531-13399135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:51:54 -0400 2018-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prisoner’s Dilemma (detail) by Hava Gurevich, photograph by Jeff Kravitz. High resolution version available upon request.
Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy (October 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53528 53528-13398889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:40:33 -0400 2018-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Earth by Nihad Dukhan, Ph.D., photograph by Dave Pemberton. High resolution version available upon request.
Unique Perspectives: Maps from Tokugawa & Meiji Japan (October 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55296 55296-13713834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit of Japanese maps produced during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), includes maps of the world, Japan, and cities including Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto. A major loan from the collection of Barry MacLean, Lake Forest, Illinois, forms the core of the exhibit, supplemented with works on loan from the Robert B. Hall Collection illustrating the Tokaido road, and selected maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library collection.

Audubon Room hours:
Sunday, 1-6pm; Monday-Friday, 8:30am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Clark Library hours:
Sunday, 1pm-12am; Monday-Thursday, 8am-12am; Friday, 8am-7pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Join us for an opening celebration on September 20, 4-7 p.m.

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Exhibition Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:43:10 -0400 2018-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-27T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the Edo Kiriezu, 1849-1857
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (October 27, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2018-10-27T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (October 27, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-10-27T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (October 27, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-10-27T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
Painting His Way Home (October 27, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-27T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-27T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Exhibition | Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern (October 27, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52176 52176-12520848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Human beings are political animals, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis,” the Greek word for city. Over two thousand years later, we are still political animals, and the study of ancient cities is of abiding interest, for our perceptions of the urban centers of the past continue to exert a powerful hold on modern culture.

This exhibition showcases three Classical cities where the University of Michigan sponsors field projects: Gabii in Italy, Olynthos in Greece, and Notion in Turkey. The archaeologists excavating these cities, in collaboration with students and faculty from U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, are comparing their findings to projects of urban rebuilding in contemporary Detroit, asking two main questions: How do contemporary archaeological methods facilitate the study of both ancient and modern cities? And how can the study of the past help illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Detroit today?

Lead Curator: Christopher Ratté
Co-Curators: Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, and Kathy Velikov

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:14:19 -0400 2018-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture (October 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53529 53529-13398972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Marcia Polenberg loves animals, each with its own unique personality, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness, surprise, mischief, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times, building up a rich, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics, paint, graphite and pastel.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:44:25 -0400 2018-10-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pink Piglet by Marcia Polenberg, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Innovations in Ornament (October 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53533 53533-13399300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists, Lorraine Kolasa, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler, Roger Smith, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:03:18 -0400 2018-10-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Functional Resilience – Brooches by Michael Nashef, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (October 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53530 53530-13399054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:47:50 -0400 2018-10-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2017 winning piece in Color Photography, Butterfly up Close by Lynda Mitgutsch. High resolution version available upon request.
Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas (October 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53531 53531-13399136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:51:54 -0400 2018-10-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prisoner’s Dilemma (detail) by Hava Gurevich, photograph by Jeff Kravitz. High resolution version available upon request.
Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy (October 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53528 53528-13398890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:40:33 -0400 2018-10-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Earth by Nihad Dukhan, Ph.D., photograph by Dave Pemberton. High resolution version available upon request.
Unique Perspectives: Maps from Tokugawa & Meiji Japan (October 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55296 55296-13713835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit of Japanese maps produced during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), includes maps of the world, Japan, and cities including Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto. A major loan from the collection of Barry MacLean, Lake Forest, Illinois, forms the core of the exhibit, supplemented with works on loan from the Robert B. Hall Collection illustrating the Tokaido road, and selected maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library collection.

Audubon Room hours:
Sunday, 1-6pm; Monday-Friday, 8:30am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Clark Library hours:
Sunday, 1pm-12am; Monday-Thursday, 8am-12am; Friday, 8am-7pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Join us for an opening celebration on September 20, 4-7 p.m.

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Exhibition Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:43:10 -0400 2018-10-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-28T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the Edo Kiriezu, 1849-1857
Painting His Way Home (October 28, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 28, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-28T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-28T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (October 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2018-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (October 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (October 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
Exhibition | Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern (October 28, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52176 52176-12520849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 28, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Human beings are political animals, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis,” the Greek word for city. Over two thousand years later, we are still political animals, and the study of ancient cities is of abiding interest, for our perceptions of the urban centers of the past continue to exert a powerful hold on modern culture.

This exhibition showcases three Classical cities where the University of Michigan sponsors field projects: Gabii in Italy, Olynthos in Greece, and Notion in Turkey. The archaeologists excavating these cities, in collaboration with students and faculty from U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, are comparing their findings to projects of urban rebuilding in contemporary Detroit, asking two main questions: How do contemporary archaeological methods facilitate the study of both ancient and modern cities? And how can the study of the past help illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Detroit today?

Lead Curator: Christopher Ratté
Co-Curators: Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, and Kathy Velikov

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:14:19 -0400 2018-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture (October 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53529 53529-13398973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Marcia Polenberg loves animals, each with its own unique personality, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness, surprise, mischief, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times, building up a rich, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics, paint, graphite and pastel.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:44:25 -0400 2018-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pink Piglet by Marcia Polenberg, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Innovations in Ornament (October 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53533 53533-13399301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists, Lorraine Kolasa, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler, Roger Smith, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:03:18 -0400 2018-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Functional Resilience – Brooches by Michael Nashef, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (October 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53530 53530-13399055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:47:50 -0400 2018-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2017 winning piece in Color Photography, Butterfly up Close by Lynda Mitgutsch. High resolution version available upon request.
Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas (October 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53531 53531-13399137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:51:54 -0400 2018-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prisoner’s Dilemma (detail) by Hava Gurevich, photograph by Jeff Kravitz. High resolution version available upon request.
Pacific Underwater Photography (October 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53534 53534-13399383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A passionate diver for more than 22 years, Lucy S. Wu is a self-taught artist. She started with film photography and now works in digital. This exhibit displays her friends of the sea and the stunning colors and patterns of the underwater world. Her “aquarium” is the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern Asian coastline from Australia north to the Philippines, as well as Micronesia and the Galapagos Islands. Her goal is to show the beauty and character of the life she encounters, with the hope that her photography will inspire ocean conservation. Wu grew up in Ann Arbor and is now based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:11:51 -0400 2018-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Peekaboo — Anemonefish, taken in Papua New Guinea by Lucy S. Wu. High resolution version available upon request.
Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy (October 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53528 53528-13398891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:40:33 -0400 2018-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Earth by Nihad Dukhan, Ph.D., photograph by Dave Pemberton. High resolution version available upon request.
Unique Perspectives: Maps from Tokugawa & Meiji Japan (October 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55296 55296-13713836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit of Japanese maps produced during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), includes maps of the world, Japan, and cities including Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto. A major loan from the collection of Barry MacLean, Lake Forest, Illinois, forms the core of the exhibit, supplemented with works on loan from the Robert B. Hall Collection illustrating the Tokaido road, and selected maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library collection.

Audubon Room hours:
Sunday, 1-6pm; Monday-Friday, 8:30am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Clark Library hours:
Sunday, 1pm-12am; Monday-Thursday, 8am-12am; Friday, 8am-7pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Join us for an opening celebration on September 20, 4-7 p.m.

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Exhibition Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:43:10 -0400 2018-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-29T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the Edo Kiriezu, 1849-1857
David Cope: Player of Invisible Keys (October 29, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55790 55790-13777590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Celebrate the work of Michigan poet David Cope, once described by Allen Ginsberg as one of the "leading lights of the next generation." This exhibit draws on drafts, proofs, and other documents from Cope's archive to offer a glimpse into his poetic and editorial process.

Working most often in the Objectivist tradition of Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and George Oppen, David Cope has a particular gift for descriptive detail and for juxtaposing the the intimacy of daily life with commentary on the arc of current events and the particularity of personal relationships with the universality of human experience. He received the Pushcart Prize for “The Crash” in 1977 and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for On The Bridge (1986). Additionally, for more than forty years, Cope has edited and published a small press literary magazine, The Big Scream, providing a venue for more than 200 poets, including both big names names and younger, lesser-known poets. Earlier this year, Ghost Pony Press released Cope’s eighth poetry collection: The Invisible Keys: New and Selected Poems.

On view during Special Collections Research Center hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:23:28 -0400 2018-10-29T08:30:00-04:00 2018-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of Big Scream no. 1 (1974), edited by David Cope. Gift of David Cope.
Art Exhibit: Nancy Blum, RC Class of '85 (October 29, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56392 56392-13896773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 29, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

RC alumna '85 Nancy Blum returns to East Quad to exhibit her drawings of flowers and to deliver the 10/19 Robertson Lecture on her public art installations.

Excerpted from her artist statement:
My large‐scale works on paper, rendered in ink, colored pencil, gouache and graphite, portray a fantastic realm in which flowers own the space. I use a variety of 16th and 17th-century botanical images, from Chinese plum blossoms to German botanicals, as starting points for each drawing. Rather than alluding to an actual landscape, I instead combine species of plants in the same drawing that would not customarily exist together in nature. Obsessive handwork creates intricate layers of visual information to be discovered over time and, in this way, the works become a seductive meditation for the viewer.

I use botanical motifs to create images that are universally associated with growth and continuity. My deeper intent is to conjure the ‘flower’ as an active, forceful agent, subverting a culturally conditioned point of view that often deems the ephemeral and the organic as less powerful and of limited value. My ‘wonderland’ presents a view of life that pulses with expansive fecundity; hopefully, it also propels comprehension of the connectedness of all beings within the limitless energy operating throughout this world.

When making art for public spaces, I strive to invest these commissions with similar content, while bringing beauty and a high level of craft to a particular environment. As I conceive and develop each piece, I respond to the specifics of the surrounding architecture, ecosystem, and community in an effort to compellingly meet the needs of the site. My studio practice, in turn, is invigorated by opportunities to design work in relationship to an existing framework, and the special demands and responsibilities this process entails.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:32:50 -0400 2018-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Nancy Blum Drawing Exhibit
Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture (October 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53529 53529-13398974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Marcia Polenberg loves animals, each with its own unique personality, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness, surprise, mischief, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times, building up a rich, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics, paint, graphite and pastel.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:44:25 -0400 2018-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pink Piglet by Marcia Polenberg, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Innovations in Ornament (October 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53533 53533-13399302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists, Lorraine Kolasa, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler, Roger Smith, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:03:18 -0400 2018-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Functional Resilience – Brooches by Michael Nashef, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (October 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53530 53530-13399056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:47:50 -0400 2018-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2017 winning piece in Color Photography, Butterfly up Close by Lynda Mitgutsch. High resolution version available upon request.
Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas (October 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53531 53531-13399138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:51:54 -0400 2018-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prisoner’s Dilemma (detail) by Hava Gurevich, photograph by Jeff Kravitz. High resolution version available upon request.
Pacific Underwater Photography (October 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53534 53534-13399384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A passionate diver for more than 22 years, Lucy S. Wu is a self-taught artist. She started with film photography and now works in digital. This exhibit displays her friends of the sea and the stunning colors and patterns of the underwater world. Her “aquarium” is the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern Asian coastline from Australia north to the Philippines, as well as Micronesia and the Galapagos Islands. Her goal is to show the beauty and character of the life she encounters, with the hope that her photography will inspire ocean conservation. Wu grew up in Ann Arbor and is now based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:11:51 -0400 2018-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Peekaboo — Anemonefish, taken in Papua New Guinea by Lucy S. Wu. High resolution version available upon request.
Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy (October 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53528 53528-13398892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:40:33 -0400 2018-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Earth by Nihad Dukhan, Ph.D., photograph by Dave Pemberton. High resolution version available upon request.
Unique Perspectives: Maps from Tokugawa & Meiji Japan (October 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55296 55296-13713837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit of Japanese maps produced during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), includes maps of the world, Japan, and cities including Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto. A major loan from the collection of Barry MacLean, Lake Forest, Illinois, forms the core of the exhibit, supplemented with works on loan from the Robert B. Hall Collection illustrating the Tokaido road, and selected maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library collection.

Audubon Room hours:
Sunday, 1-6pm; Monday-Friday, 8:30am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Clark Library hours:
Sunday, 1pm-12am; Monday-Thursday, 8am-12am; Friday, 8am-7pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Join us for an opening celebration on September 20, 4-7 p.m.

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Exhibition Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:43:10 -0400 2018-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the Edo Kiriezu, 1849-1857
David Cope: Player of Invisible Keys (October 30, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55790 55790-13777591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Celebrate the work of Michigan poet David Cope, once described by Allen Ginsberg as one of the "leading lights of the next generation." This exhibit draws on drafts, proofs, and other documents from Cope's archive to offer a glimpse into his poetic and editorial process.

Working most often in the Objectivist tradition of Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and George Oppen, David Cope has a particular gift for descriptive detail and for juxtaposing the the intimacy of daily life with commentary on the arc of current events and the particularity of personal relationships with the universality of human experience. He received the Pushcart Prize for “The Crash” in 1977 and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for On The Bridge (1986). Additionally, for more than forty years, Cope has edited and published a small press literary magazine, The Big Scream, providing a venue for more than 200 poets, including both big names names and younger, lesser-known poets. Earlier this year, Ghost Pony Press released Cope’s eighth poetry collection: The Invisible Keys: New and Selected Poems.

On view during Special Collections Research Center hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:23:28 -0400 2018-10-30T08:30:00-04:00 2018-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of Big Scream no. 1 (1974), edited by David Cope. Gift of David Cope.
Exhibition | Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern (October 30, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52176 52176-12520851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Human beings are political animals, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis,” the Greek word for city. Over two thousand years later, we are still political animals, and the study of ancient cities is of abiding interest, for our perceptions of the urban centers of the past continue to exert a powerful hold on modern culture.

This exhibition showcases three Classical cities where the University of Michigan sponsors field projects: Gabii in Italy, Olynthos in Greece, and Notion in Turkey. The archaeologists excavating these cities, in collaboration with students and faculty from U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, are comparing their findings to projects of urban rebuilding in contemporary Detroit, asking two main questions: How do contemporary archaeological methods facilitate the study of both ancient and modern cities? And how can the study of the past help illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Detroit today?

Lead Curator: Christopher Ratté
Co-Curators: Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, and Kathy Velikov

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:14:19 -0400 2018-10-30T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
Art Exhibit: Nancy Blum, RC Class of '85 (October 30, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56392 56392-13896774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

RC alumna '85 Nancy Blum returns to East Quad to exhibit her drawings of flowers and to deliver the 10/19 Robertson Lecture on her public art installations.

Excerpted from her artist statement:
My large‐scale works on paper, rendered in ink, colored pencil, gouache and graphite, portray a fantastic realm in which flowers own the space. I use a variety of 16th and 17th-century botanical images, from Chinese plum blossoms to German botanicals, as starting points for each drawing. Rather than alluding to an actual landscape, I instead combine species of plants in the same drawing that would not customarily exist together in nature. Obsessive handwork creates intricate layers of visual information to be discovered over time and, in this way, the works become a seductive meditation for the viewer.

I use botanical motifs to create images that are universally associated with growth and continuity. My deeper intent is to conjure the ‘flower’ as an active, forceful agent, subverting a culturally conditioned point of view that often deems the ephemeral and the organic as less powerful and of limited value. My ‘wonderland’ presents a view of life that pulses with expansive fecundity; hopefully, it also propels comprehension of the connectedness of all beings within the limitless energy operating throughout this world.

When making art for public spaces, I strive to invest these commissions with similar content, while bringing beauty and a high level of craft to a particular environment. As I conceive and develop each piece, I respond to the specifics of the surrounding architecture, ecosystem, and community in an effort to compellingly meet the needs of the site. My studio practice, in turn, is invigorated by opportunities to design work in relationship to an existing framework, and the special demands and responsibilities this process entails.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:32:50 -0400 2018-10-30T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Nancy Blum Drawing Exhibit
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (October 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2018-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (October 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (October 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
Painting His Way Home (October 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture (October 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53529 53529-13398975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Marcia Polenberg loves animals, each with its own unique personality, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness, surprise, mischief, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times, building up a rich, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics, paint, graphite and pastel.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:44:25 -0400 2018-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pink Piglet by Marcia Polenberg, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Innovations in Ornament (October 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53533 53533-13399303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists, Lorraine Kolasa, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler, Roger Smith, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:03:18 -0400 2018-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Functional Resilience – Brooches by Michael Nashef, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (October 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53530 53530-13399057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:47:50 -0400 2018-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2017 winning piece in Color Photography, Butterfly up Close by Lynda Mitgutsch. High resolution version available upon request.
Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas (October 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53531 53531-13399139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:51:54 -0400 2018-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prisoner’s Dilemma (detail) by Hava Gurevich, photograph by Jeff Kravitz. High resolution version available upon request.
Pacific Underwater Photography (October 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53534 53534-13399385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A passionate diver for more than 22 years, Lucy S. Wu is a self-taught artist. She started with film photography and now works in digital. This exhibit displays her friends of the sea and the stunning colors and patterns of the underwater world. Her “aquarium” is the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern Asian coastline from Australia north to the Philippines, as well as Micronesia and the Galapagos Islands. Her goal is to show the beauty and character of the life she encounters, with the hope that her photography will inspire ocean conservation. Wu grew up in Ann Arbor and is now based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:11:51 -0400 2018-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Peekaboo — Anemonefish, taken in Papua New Guinea by Lucy S. Wu. High resolution version available upon request.
Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy (October 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53528 53528-13398893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:40:33 -0400 2018-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Earth by Nihad Dukhan, Ph.D., photograph by Dave Pemberton. High resolution version available upon request.
David Cope: Player of Invisible Keys (October 31, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55790 55790-13777592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Celebrate the work of Michigan poet David Cope, once described by Allen Ginsberg as one of the "leading lights of the next generation." This exhibit draws on drafts, proofs, and other documents from Cope's archive to offer a glimpse into his poetic and editorial process.

Working most often in the Objectivist tradition of Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and George Oppen, David Cope has a particular gift for descriptive detail and for juxtaposing the the intimacy of daily life with commentary on the arc of current events and the particularity of personal relationships with the universality of human experience. He received the Pushcart Prize for “The Crash” in 1977 and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for On The Bridge (1986). Additionally, for more than forty years, Cope has edited and published a small press literary magazine, The Big Scream, providing a venue for more than 200 poets, including both big names names and younger, lesser-known poets. Earlier this year, Ghost Pony Press released Cope’s eighth poetry collection: The Invisible Keys: New and Selected Poems.

On view during Special Collections Research Center hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:23:28 -0400 2018-10-31T08:30:00-04:00 2018-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of Big Scream no. 1 (1974), edited by David Cope. Gift of David Cope.
Exhibition | Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern (October 31, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52176 52176-12520852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Human beings are political animals, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis,” the Greek word for city. Over two thousand years later, we are still political animals, and the study of ancient cities is of abiding interest, for our perceptions of the urban centers of the past continue to exert a powerful hold on modern culture.

This exhibition showcases three Classical cities where the University of Michigan sponsors field projects: Gabii in Italy, Olynthos in Greece, and Notion in Turkey. The archaeologists excavating these cities, in collaboration with students and faculty from U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, are comparing their findings to projects of urban rebuilding in contemporary Detroit, asking two main questions: How do contemporary archaeological methods facilitate the study of both ancient and modern cities? And how can the study of the past help illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Detroit today?

Lead Curator: Christopher Ratté
Co-Curators: Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, and Kathy Velikov

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:14:19 -0400 2018-10-31T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
Art Exhibit: Nancy Blum, RC Class of '85 (October 31, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56392 56392-13896775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

RC alumna '85 Nancy Blum returns to East Quad to exhibit her drawings of flowers and to deliver the 10/19 Robertson Lecture on her public art installations.

Excerpted from her artist statement:
My large‐scale works on paper, rendered in ink, colored pencil, gouache and graphite, portray a fantastic realm in which flowers own the space. I use a variety of 16th and 17th-century botanical images, from Chinese plum blossoms to German botanicals, as starting points for each drawing. Rather than alluding to an actual landscape, I instead combine species of plants in the same drawing that would not customarily exist together in nature. Obsessive handwork creates intricate layers of visual information to be discovered over time and, in this way, the works become a seductive meditation for the viewer.

I use botanical motifs to create images that are universally associated with growth and continuity. My deeper intent is to conjure the ‘flower’ as an active, forceful agent, subverting a culturally conditioned point of view that often deems the ephemeral and the organic as less powerful and of limited value. My ‘wonderland’ presents a view of life that pulses with expansive fecundity; hopefully, it also propels comprehension of the connectedness of all beings within the limitless energy operating throughout this world.

When making art for public spaces, I strive to invest these commissions with similar content, while bringing beauty and a high level of craft to a particular environment. As I conceive and develop each piece, I respond to the specifics of the surrounding architecture, ecosystem, and community in an effort to compellingly meet the needs of the site. My studio practice, in turn, is invigorated by opportunities to design work in relationship to an existing framework, and the special demands and responsibilities this process entails.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:32:50 -0400 2018-10-31T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Nancy Blum Drawing Exhibit
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (October 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2018-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (October 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Painting His Way Home (October 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Unique Perspectives: Maps from Tokugawa & Meiji Japan (October 31, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55296 55296-14095163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit of Japanese maps produced during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), includes maps of the world, Japan, and cities including Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto. A major loan from the collection of Barry MacLean, Lake Forest, Illinois, forms the core of the exhibit, supplemented with works on loan from the Robert B. Hall Collection illustrating the Tokaido road, and selected maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library collection.

Audubon Room hours:
Sunday, 1-6pm; Monday-Friday, 8:30am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Clark Library hours:
Sunday, 1pm-12am; Monday-Thursday, 8am-12am; Friday, 8am-7pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Join us for an opening celebration on September 20, 4-7 p.m.

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Exhibition Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:43:10 -0400 2018-10-31T20:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the Edo Kiriezu, 1849-1857
Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture (November 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53529 53529-13398976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Marcia Polenberg loves animals, each with its own unique personality, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness, surprise, mischief, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times, building up a rich, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics, paint, graphite and pastel.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:44:25 -0400 2018-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pink Piglet by Marcia Polenberg, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (November 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Innovations in Ornament (November 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53533 53533-13399304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists, Lorraine Kolasa, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler, Roger Smith, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:03:18 -0400 2018-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Functional Resilience – Brooches by Michael Nashef, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (November 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53530 53530-13399058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:47:50 -0400 2018-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2017 winning piece in Color Photography, Butterfly up Close by Lynda Mitgutsch. High resolution version available upon request.
Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas (November 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53531 53531-13399140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:51:54 -0400 2018-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prisoner’s Dilemma (detail) by Hava Gurevich, photograph by Jeff Kravitz. High resolution version available upon request.
Pacific Underwater Photography (November 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53534 53534-13399386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A passionate diver for more than 22 years, Lucy S. Wu is a self-taught artist. She started with film photography and now works in digital. This exhibit displays her friends of the sea and the stunning colors and patterns of the underwater world. Her “aquarium” is the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern Asian coastline from Australia north to the Philippines, as well as Micronesia and the Galapagos Islands. Her goal is to show the beauty and character of the life she encounters, with the hope that her photography will inspire ocean conservation. Wu grew up in Ann Arbor and is now based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:11:51 -0400 2018-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Peekaboo — Anemonefish, taken in Papua New Guinea by Lucy S. Wu. High resolution version available upon request.
Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy (November 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53528 53528-13398894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:40:33 -0400 2018-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Earth by Nihad Dukhan, Ph.D., photograph by Dave Pemberton. High resolution version available upon request.
Yi-Chun Wu: East in Motion (November 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54510 54510-13592092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Over the last decade, Yi-Chun Wu has been working with numerous prestigious dance companies all over the world, including the Paris Opera Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet, Shen Wei Dance Arts, American Ballet Theatre, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, and many more. Her photo exhibition entitled “East in Motion” will showcase her photographs of "eastern" bodies and movements that transcend all boundaries of nations and races.

Yi-Chun Wu is a dance photographer. In the last ten years, Yi-Chun Wu has worked with many dancers and dance companies internationally. She worked with many prestigious dance companies including the Paris Opera Ballet, Lyon Opera Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater 2, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Grupo Corpo, Philippe Decouflé, Batsheva, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, GALA FLAMENCA, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, CCDC, Guangdong Modern Dance Company, BeijingDance / LDTX, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Houying Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Martha Graham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Pilobolus, Momix, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Twyla Tharp, Ballet Hispanico, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and Stephen Petronio Company. She was the house photographer for NYLA (previous known as Dance Theater Workshop) for 3 years and worked as a contract photographer for MoMA's Performing Art Series. She is also the official photographer of dance festivals for Singapore da:ns festival, Guangdong Dance Festival, and several dance festivals in New York City.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Aug 2018 15:49:14 -0400 2018-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition YiChun Wu
David Cope: Player of Invisible Keys (November 1, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55790 55790-13777593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Celebrate the work of Michigan poet David Cope, once described by Allen Ginsberg as one of the "leading lights of the next generation." This exhibit draws on drafts, proofs, and other documents from Cope's archive to offer a glimpse into his poetic and editorial process.

Working most often in the Objectivist tradition of Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and George Oppen, David Cope has a particular gift for descriptive detail and for juxtaposing the the intimacy of daily life with commentary on the arc of current events and the particularity of personal relationships with the universality of human experience. He received the Pushcart Prize for “The Crash” in 1977 and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for On The Bridge (1986). Additionally, for more than forty years, Cope has edited and published a small press literary magazine, The Big Scream, providing a venue for more than 200 poets, including both big names names and younger, lesser-known poets. Earlier this year, Ghost Pony Press released Cope’s eighth poetry collection: The Invisible Keys: New and Selected Poems.

On view during Special Collections Research Center hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:23:28 -0400 2018-11-01T08:30:00-04:00 2018-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of Big Scream no. 1 (1974), edited by David Cope. Gift of David Cope.
Exhibition | Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern (November 1, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52176 52176-12520853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Human beings are political animals, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis,” the Greek word for city. Over two thousand years later, we are still political animals, and the study of ancient cities is of abiding interest, for our perceptions of the urban centers of the past continue to exert a powerful hold on modern culture.

This exhibition showcases three Classical cities where the University of Michigan sponsors field projects: Gabii in Italy, Olynthos in Greece, and Notion in Turkey. The archaeologists excavating these cities, in collaboration with students and faculty from U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, are comparing their findings to projects of urban rebuilding in contemporary Detroit, asking two main questions: How do contemporary archaeological methods facilitate the study of both ancient and modern cities? And how can the study of the past help illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Detroit today?

Lead Curator: Christopher Ratté
Co-Curators: Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, and Kathy Velikov

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:14:19 -0400 2018-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
Art Exhibit: Nancy Blum, RC Class of '85 (November 1, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56392 56392-13896776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

RC alumna '85 Nancy Blum returns to East Quad to exhibit her drawings of flowers and to deliver the 10/19 Robertson Lecture on her public art installations.

Excerpted from her artist statement:
My large‐scale works on paper, rendered in ink, colored pencil, gouache and graphite, portray a fantastic realm in which flowers own the space. I use a variety of 16th and 17th-century botanical images, from Chinese plum blossoms to German botanicals, as starting points for each drawing. Rather than alluding to an actual landscape, I instead combine species of plants in the same drawing that would not customarily exist together in nature. Obsessive handwork creates intricate layers of visual information to be discovered over time and, in this way, the works become a seductive meditation for the viewer.

I use botanical motifs to create images that are universally associated with growth and continuity. My deeper intent is to conjure the ‘flower’ as an active, forceful agent, subverting a culturally conditioned point of view that often deems the ephemeral and the organic as less powerful and of limited value. My ‘wonderland’ presents a view of life that pulses with expansive fecundity; hopefully, it also propels comprehension of the connectedness of all beings within the limitless energy operating throughout this world.

When making art for public spaces, I strive to invest these commissions with similar content, while bringing beauty and a high level of craft to a particular environment. As I conceive and develop each piece, I respond to the specifics of the surrounding architecture, ecosystem, and community in an effort to compellingly meet the needs of the site. My studio practice, in turn, is invigorated by opportunities to design work in relationship to an existing framework, and the special demands and responsibilities this process entails.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:32:50 -0400 2018-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Nancy Blum Drawing Exhibit
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (November 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2018-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (November 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (November 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
Painting His Way Home (November 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Unique Perspectives: Maps from Tokugawa & Meiji Japan (November 1, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55296 55296-14095164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit of Japanese maps produced during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), includes maps of the world, Japan, and cities including Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto. A major loan from the collection of Barry MacLean, Lake Forest, Illinois, forms the core of the exhibit, supplemented with works on loan from the Robert B. Hall Collection illustrating the Tokaido road, and selected maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library collection.

Audubon Room hours:
Sunday, 1-6pm; Monday-Friday, 8:30am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Clark Library hours:
Sunday, 1pm-12am; Monday-Thursday, 8am-12am; Friday, 8am-7pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Join us for an opening celebration on September 20, 4-7 p.m.

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Exhibition Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:43:10 -0400 2018-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the Edo Kiriezu, 1849-1857
Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture (November 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53529 53529-13398977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Marcia Polenberg loves animals, each with its own unique personality, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness, surprise, mischief, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times, building up a rich, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics, paint, graphite and pastel.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:44:25 -0400 2018-11-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pink Piglet by Marcia Polenberg, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (November 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Innovations in Ornament (November 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53533 53533-13399305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists, Lorraine Kolasa, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler, Roger Smith, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:03:18 -0400 2018-11-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Functional Resilience – Brooches by Michael Nashef, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (November 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53530 53530-13399059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:47:50 -0400 2018-11-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2017 winning piece in Color Photography, Butterfly up Close by Lynda Mitgutsch. High resolution version available upon request.
Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas (November 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53531 53531-13399141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:51:54 -0400 2018-11-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prisoner’s Dilemma (detail) by Hava Gurevich, photograph by Jeff Kravitz. High resolution version available upon request.